1960, somewhere in St Paul. Folksingers played there of nights and Dylan says it was there he spent his last night in Minnesota before heading off to NYC and fame. Google the name... repeated again and again. But where was it? No one knows...at least no one on the internet. That I could find.
I decided to find out...to the University library and City library to look in City Directories and phone books. Nothing. Then a guy who writes on St Paul history is found by me. Does he know?,,,, no, but he spoke to a guy who was trying to find out and he will ask, Then he'll put me in touch. Meanwhile...an old guy seems to recall that...and he writes me.
Then the guy trying to find out writes. He spoke to a guy who knows Tony Glover who played in Minneapolis then and knew Dylan (Glover the associate of Spider John Koerner) and he says it was on the corner of Snelling and Minnehaha. Then this is confirmed to me by the other source!
And today 12/20/09 because I could search in the 1960 St. Paul City Directory by location I found this:
The Inn of the Purple Onion 722 North Snelling! I stopped there. Home of Moxie Hair Salon now.
a much more Hobbity name and the real name. Dylan was wrong... I am right. Few know the real name and location as I type this. If you read this, you will be one of the few.
At last! Now the world knows. Pass it on.
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Now it is known. Someone searching will find. I can go now. Goodbye.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. Thanks, headed there next month. I'd prefer pizza over a hairdo, but beggars can't be choosers.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Seems Moxie has moved, and the space is now Flying Pig Thrift. The brick building bears the name Hamline Apartments. So was it extant in 1960, or built afterwards?
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